With 25 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, Japan is ideal for those who like to explore the historical and environmental aspects of ...

In a world obsessed with aesthetic perfection, wabi-sabi is an ancient Japanese philosophy that celebrates the beauty of the ...

since they illustrate the adaptation of Chinese Buddhist architecture and layout to Japanese culture, but also for the history of religion, since their construction coincided with the introduction of ...

The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...

Daisaku Ikeda, who headed Soka Gakkai, a Japanese Buddhist organization, that includes famed musician Herbie Hancock and other celebrities in its fold, has died at 95, the Japanese religious ...

From May to July 2023, Koyasan and other locations around Japan connected to Shingon Buddhism will be marking ... Be it art and architecture or immersive experiences, there’s so much to discover ...

On this episode of Journeys in Japan, American architect James Lambiasi visits a hot spring resort where the main street is lined with hotels built from timber; an ancient Buddhist temple where ...

NOBEOKA, Miyazaki -- One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi temple in this southwestern Japan city was purified ...